Kanawha

Kanawha may refer to:

Places

• Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Point Pleasant
  • Kanawha Falls, a waterfall on the Kanawha River
  • Kanawha Falls, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County near the waterfall
  • Kanawha River Valley AVA, West Virginia wine region
• Little Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Parkersburg
  • Kanawha, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wood County near Parkersburg
• Kanawha County, West Virginia
  • Kanawha County textbook controversy, a violent school control struggle beginning in 1974
• State of Kanawha, an early name for the state of West Virginia
• Kanawha Canal, part of the James River and Kanawha Canal, a partially built canal in Richmond, VA
• Kanawha (Luray, Virginia), a historic house
• Kanawha, Iowa, city

Railroad

• Kanawha, a type 2-8-4 railroad steam locomotive

Ships

• Kanawha (1899), a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers
• USS Kanawha or USNS Kanawha has been the name of seven ships of the United States Navy
• USS Kanawha II (SP-130), a yacht which served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and was renamed USS Piqua (SP-130) in 1918.
• The United States Coast Guard Cutter Kanawha, a buoy tender in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Other uses

• Kanawha, a solar deity in Seneca mythology
• Kanawha Valley people, an ancient indigenous people who lived in what is now West Virginia
• "Kanawha", a song by rock band Seam from the album The Pace Is Glacial